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The  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts 
BULLETIN  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION 

1912,  No.  15  WHOLE  NUMBER.  19 

Educational  Legislation 


OF   1912 


Enacted  by  the  General  Court,  giving  Acts  and  Resolves 
with  Annotations 


Issued  by  the  Bo.\rd  of  Education  August  1,  1912 


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EDUCATIONAL  LEGISLATION 

Enacted  by  the  General  Court  in  1912,  giving  Acts  and 
Resolves  with  Annotations. 


Content. 

This  pamphlet  contains  legislation  relating  to  public  educa- 
tion enacted  by  the  General  Court  during  the  session  of  1912, 
save  resolves  appropriating  money  for  specific  purposes  or  to 
meet  annual  expenditures.  The  text  of  the  acts  and  resolves 
is  followed  by  explanation  and  comment  where  these  seem  to 
be  required.     The  laws  are  grouped  under  three  headings :  — 

I.  Acts  and  resolves  conferring  powers  and  duties  on  the 
Board  of  Education. 

II.  Acts  of  general  import  to  the  public  schools. 

III.  Special  acts  relating  to  specific  communities  or  insti- 
tutions. 

(For  list  of  titles  of  chapters  see  page  37.) 


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PART    I.  —  LEGISLATION    CONFERRING    POWERS 
AND  DUTIES  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION. 


APPOINTEES   AND    EXPENDITURES   OF    THE    BOARD   OF    EDU- 
CATION. 

Chapter  80. 

An  Act  relative  to  the  appointees  of  the  board  of  education. 

Section  1.  Section  three  of  chapter  four  hundred  and  fifty-seven  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  nine,  as  amended  by  chapter 
two  hundred  and  eighty-two  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred 
and  ten,  and  by  chapter  four  hundred  and  sixty-six  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  strik- 
ing out  the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following: 
—  Section  3.  The  board  shall  appoint  a  commissioner  of  education 
whose  term  of  office  shall  be  five  years,  and  may  fix  his  salary  at  such 
sum  as  the  governor  and  council  shall  approve.  Said  commissioner 
may  at  any  time  be  removed  from  office  by  a  vote  of  six  members  of 
the  board.  He  shall  exercise  the  powers  and  perform  the  duties  now 
conferred  or  imposed  by  law  on  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion. He  shall  be  the  executive  officer  of  the  board,  shall  have  super- 
vision of  all  educational  work  supported  in  whole  or  in  part  by  the 
commonwealth,  and  shall  report  thereon  to  the  board,  and,  when  so 
authorized  by  the  board,  may  approve  bills  for  expenditures  from  ap- 
propriations and  funds  placed  under  the  direction  of  the  board.  The 
board  shall  also  ai^point  two  deputy  commissioners,  at  equal  salaries, 
one  of  whom  shall  be  especially  qualified  to  deal  with  industrial  edu- 
cation. The  powers,  duties,  salaries  and  terms  of  office  of  said  deputy 
commissioners  shall  be  such  as  may  be  established  from  time  to  time 
by  the  board,  but  the  board  may,  by  a  vote  of  six  members  thereof, 
remove  from  office  at  any  time  either  of  said  deputy  commissioners. 
The  board  may  be  allowed  for  rent,  salaries  of  the  commissioner,  the 
deputies,  agents,  assistants  and  clerical  service,  and  for  travelling  and 
other  necessary  expenses  of  the  commissioner,  the  deputies,  agents,  and 
of  the  board,  incurred  in  the  performance  of  their  official  duties,  such 
sum  as  shall  be  appropriated  by  the  general  court  annually,  payable 
out  of  the  treasury  of  the  commonwealth. 


The  amendment  made  by  the  above  act  permits  the  Board  of 
Education  to  authorize  the  Commissioner  of  Education  to  ap- 
prove bills  for  expenditures  made  from  funds  and  appropria- 
tions under  the  control  of  the  Board.  Such  an  arrangement 
facilitates  the  work  of  the  Board  on  its  financial  side. 

STATE   NORMAL   SCHOOL   ACCOUNTS. 

Chapter  79. 
An  Act  relative  to  the  supervision  by  the  auditor  op  the  common- 
wealth OF  ACCOUNTS  KEPT  AT  STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOLS. 
Section  1.  Section  ten  of  chapter  thirty-nine  of  the  Revised  Laws 
is  hereby  amended  by  striking  out  all  after  the  word  "  direction  ",  in 
the  fourth  line,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following :  —  The 
receipts  from  pupils  boarded  in  halls  maintained  at  normal  schools 
shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  commonwealth  monthly,  and  so 
much  thereof  as  is  necessary  to  pay  the  exjienses  of  wages,  food  and 
supplies  for  dormitories  and  kitchens  shall  be  paid  therefrom  upon 
approved  schedules  accompanied  by  vouchers  in  the  same  manner  that 
other  claims  against  the  commonwealth  are  paid;  and  all  receipts  from 
other  sources  shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  commonwealth 
monthly  as  a  part  of  the  general  revenue  of  the  commonwealth.  The 
auditor  of  the  commonwealth  shall  exercise  the  same  direction  of  all  ac- 
counts kept  at  normal  schools  as  is  authorized  by  section  four  of  chapter 
five  hundred  and  ninety-seven  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred 
and  eight.  The  principals  of  the  several  normal  schools  shall  be  bonded 
in  amounts  to  be  approved  by  the  board  of  education,  —  so  as  to  read 
as  follows :  —  Section  10.  The  board  shall  have  the  general  manage- 
ment of  the  state  normal  schools  and  the  boarding  houses  connected 
therewith,  and  money  appropriated  for  their  maintenance  may  be  ex- 
pended under  its  direction.  The  receipts  from  pupils  boarded  in  halls 
maintained  at  normal  schools  shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the 
commonwealth  monthly,  and  so  much  thereof  as  is  necessary  to  pay 
the  expenses  of  wages,  food  and  supplies  for  dormitories  and  kitchens 
shall  be  paid  therefrom  upon  approved  schedules  accompanied  by 
vouchers  in  the  same  manner  that  other  claims  against  the  common- 
monwealth  are  paid;  and  all  receipts  from  other  sources  shall  be  paid 
into  the  treasury  of  the  commonwealth  monthly  as  a  part  of  the  general 
revenue  of  the  commonwealth.  The  auditor  of  the  commonwealth  shall 
exercise  the  same  direction  of  all  accounts  kept  at  normal  schools  as 
is  authorized  by  section  four  of  chapter  five  hundred  and  ninety-seven 
of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight.  The  principals  of 
the  several  normal  schools  shall  be  bonded  in  amounts  to  be  approved 
by  the  board  of  education. 


The  purpose  of  this  act  is  to  secure  the  same  method  of  re- 
porting and  approvins;  the  accounts  of  receipts  and  payments 
of  normal  schools  as  holds  in  the  case  of  otlier  public  institu- 
tions supported  from  the  treasury  of  the  CommonAvealth. 

SCHOOLING  OF  WARDS  OF  THE    STATE  OR  OF   THE    CITY  OF 

BOSTON. 

Chapter  136. 

Eesolve  to  provide  for  an  investigation  by  the  board  of  education 
AS  to  compensating  cities  and  tou^ns  for  schooling  furnished 
to  wards  of  the  commonwealth  or  of  the  city  op  boston. 
Besolved,  That  the  board  of  education  shall  investigate  the  matter 
of  compensating  cities  and  towns  in  the  commonwealth  for  schooling 
furnished  by  them  in  the  public  schools  to  wards  of  the  commonwealth 
or  of  the  city  of  Boston,  and  shall  devise  a  just  plan  for  providing 
and  regulating  the  compensation.     The  said  board  shall  report  its  rec- 
ommendations to  the  general  court,  not  later  than  January  fifth,  nine- 
teen hundred  and  thirteen,  with  such  recommendations  for  legislation, 
if  any,  as  it  may  deem  expedient. 

STATE    NORMAL   ART    SCHOOL    AND    THE    BOSTON    NORMAL 

SCHOOL. 

Chapter  47. 

Resolve  to  authorize  an  investigation  by  the  board  op  education 
relative  to   the  state   normal  art   school  and   the  boston 

NORMAL  school. 

Besolved,  That  the  board  of  education  is  hereby  directed  to  consider 
whether  or  not  it  would  be  expedient  for  the  commonwealth  to  provide 
for  the  state  normal  art  school  a  site  and  buildings  other  than  those 
now  occupied  by  said  school,  and  also  whether  or  not  the  Boston  normal 
school  should  be  taken  over  by  the  commonwealth,  and  what  arrange- 
ments can  be  made  with  the  city  of  Boston  to  eifect  the  transfer  of  the 
school.  The  board  shall  report  its  conclusions  and  recommendations 
to  the  next  general  court  not  later  than  the  second  Wednesday  in 
January. 

TRANSPORTATION   OF   CERTAIN  HIGH   SCHOOL  PUPILS. 

Chapter  39. 
Resolve   directing   the   board   op   education   to   investigate   the 
transportation  of  pupils  attending  high  schools  in  cities  or 

towns  OTHER  THAN  THOSE  IN   WHICH  THEY  RESIDE. 

Resolved,  That  the  board  of  education  is  hereby  authorized  and  di- 
rected to  investigate  the  matter  of  the  transportation  of  pupils  residing 
in  towns  not  maintaining  high  schools  and  attending  high  schools  in 


other  towns  or  cities  as  provided  for  by  section  three  of  chapter  forty- 
two  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as  amended  by  chapter  four  hundred  and 
thirty-three  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  two  and  by 
chapter  five  hundred  and  thirty-seven  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  eleven.  The  board  shall  investigate  the  present  practice 
of  towns  in  providing  transportation  and  the  expense  incurred,  and 
shall  report  the  results  of  their  investigation,  with  such  recommenda- 
tions as  they  may  deem  expedient,  to  the  next  general  court  not  later 
than  Wednesday  the  fifteenth  day  of  January. 

REPORT     ON     CERTAIN     EDUCATIONAL     INSTITUTIONS     SUP- 
PORTED  IN  PART   BY   THE   STATE. 

Chapter  31. 
Resolve  to  provide  for  a  report  by  the  bo.'Vrd  of  education  as  to 
educational  institutions  supported  in  part  by  the  common- 
WEALTH. 

Besolved,  That  the  board  of  education  is  hereby  authorized  and  di- 
rected to  make  to  the  general  court  a  report  relative  to  all  textile  schools 
and  schools  for  the  deaf  which  are  supported  in  part  by  the  common- 
wealth by  annual  or  special  appropriations,  by  payment  of  tuition  fees 
or  in  any  other  way.  The  report  shall  contain  such  facts  and  recom- 
mendations as  the  board  may  deem  advisable,  with  a  view  of  promoting 
the  efficiency  and  economy  of  the  various  kinds  of  education  aided  by 
the  commonwealth  in  the  said  institutions.  The  board  and  its  agents  are 
hereby  authorized  to  visit  and  inspect  the  said  institutions  and  investi- 
gate their  educational  and  other  activities,  and  to  require  from  them 
such  reports  as  the  board  may  deem  necessary.  The  board  may  emjoloy 
special  agents  to  inspect  and  to  report  as  to  the  said  institutions,  and 
to  procure  for  the  board  such  information  as  it  may  require. 

Chapter  636  of  the  Acts  of  1912  makes  an  appropriation  of 
$6,000  for  the  above  investigation. 

SCHOOL  FOR  INSTRUCTION  IN  DESIGNING  SILVERWARE  AND 

JEWELRY. 

Chapter  16. 

Resolve  relative  to  the  establishment  op  a  school  for  instruc- 
tion IN   DESIGNING   SILVERV7ARE  AND   JEWELRY. 

Besolved,  That  the  board  of  education  is  hereby  directed  to  investi- 
gate advisability,  prnclicnbiHty  and  cost  of  establishing  and  main- 
taining in  the  city  of  Taunton  or  in  the  town  of  Attleborough  a  state 
school  for  technical  instruction,  and  especially  for  instruction  in  the 
designing,  modeling  and  manufacture  of  silverware  and  jewelry.     The 


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board  shall  report  to  the  next  general  court,  not  later  than  the  tenth 
day  of  January,  and  shall  accompany  its  report  with  a  draft  of  any 
legislation  ■which  it  may  recommend. 

CITY   OF   FITCHBURG  AND   THE   STATE   NORMAL   SCHOOL. 

Chapter  620. 
An  Act  to  authorize  the  city  of  fitchburg  to  incur  indebtedness 

FOR   THE    purpose    OF    CONTRIBUTING   TOWARD   THE    IMPROVEMENT   OP 
LAND  AT  THE  STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL  IN  SAID  CITY. 

Section  1.  The  treasurer  and  receiver  general  is  hereby  authorized 
to  receive  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  from  the  city  of  Fitchburg 
for  the  purpose  of  paying  obligations  arising  from  the  improvement  of 
certain  land  for  playground,  school  garden  and  agricultural  purposes 
at  the  state  normal  school  in  said  city.  Bills  incurred  for  these  purposes 
shall  be  approved  by  the  board  of  education  and  presented  at  the  audi- 
tor's office  for  payment. 

Section  2.  To  meet  the  i^ayment  mentioned  in  section  one  of  this 
act,  the  city  of  Fitchburg  is  hereby  authorized  to  borrow  a  sum  not 
exceeding  five  thousand  dollars,  and  to  issue  notes  or  bonds  therefor 
payable  in  periods  not  exceeding  ten  years  from  the  dates  of  issue. 
Such  notes  or  bonds  shall  be  signed  by  the  city  treasurer  and  counter- 
signed by  the  mayor,  shall  bear  interest,  payable  semi-annually,  at  a 
rate  not  exceeding  four  per  cent  per  annum,  and  shall  be  sold  or  dis- 
posed of  in  such  manner  and  on  such  terms  as  the  treasurer  and  mayor 
may  determine.  At  the  time  of  issuing  such  notes  or  bonds  the  city 
shall  provide  for  the  i^ayment  thereof  in  such  annual  paj-ments  as  will 
extinguish  the  same  within  the  time  prescribed  in  this  act.  When  a 
vote  of  the  city  council  to  that  effect  has  been  passed,  the  amount  re- 
quired shall  be  raised  annually  by  taxation  in  the  same  manner  in 
which  other  taxes  are  assessed,  and  without  any  further  action  of  the 
city. 

Section  3.  Chapter  three  hundred  and  sixteen  of  the  acts  of  the 
present  year  is  hereby  repealed. 

CITY    OF    SALEM    AND    TRAINING    SCHOOL    IN    CONNECTION 
WITH   THE   STATE   NORMAL   SCHOOL. 

Chapter  551. 

An  Act  relative  to  the  acquisition  of  land  and  to  the  erection 

OF   A   training   or   MODEL    SCHOOL   BUILDING   IN    CONNECTION    WITH 
THE  STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL  AT  SALEM. 

Section  1.  A  sum  not  exceeding  seventy-five  thousand  dollars  is 
hereby  appropriated,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury  of  the  common- 
wealth and  to  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  the  board  of  educa- 


tion  for  the  taking  or  purchase  of  additional  land  for  the  use  of  the 
state  normal  school  at  Salem,  and  for  the  erection  and  equipment  on 
land  owned  by  the  commonwealth  of  a  building  suitable  for  training 
or  model  school  purposes;  but  no  part  of  this  sum  shall  be  expended 
until  satisfactory  evidence  is  furnished  to  the  auditor  of  the  common- 
wealth that  a  sum  of  seventy-five  thousand  dollars  has  been  paid  into 
the  treasury  of  the  commonwealth  by  the  city  of  Salem  for  the  same 
purpose. 

Section  2.  The  city  of  Salem  may,  for  the  aforesaid  purpose,  incur 
indebtedness  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  seventy-five  thousand  dollars, 
and  may  issue  bonds,  notes  or  scrip  therefor,  to  be  denominated  on  the 
face  thereof,  Salem  Training  School  Loan,  Act  of  1912.  Such  bonds, 
notes  or  scrip  shall  be  signed  by  the  treasurer  of  the  city  and  counter- 
signed by  the  mayor,  shall  be  payable  at  the  expiration  of  periods  not 
exceeding  forty  years  from  the  dates  of  issue,  shall  bear  interest  at  a 
rate  not  exceeding  four  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually, 
and  shall  not  be  reckoned  in  determining  the  statutory  limit  of  indebted- 
ness of  the  city.  The  city  may  sell  such  securities  at  public  or  private 
sale  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  it  may  deem  proper,  but  they 
shall  not  be  sold  for  less  than  their  par  value.  The  city,  at  the  time 
of  authorizing  said  loan,  shall  provide  for  the  payment  thereof  in  such 
annual  proportionate  payments  as  will  extinguish  the  same  within  the 
time  prescribed  by  this  act,  and  when  such  provision  has  been  made 
the  amount  required  thereby  shall,  without  further  vote,  annually  be 
assessed  by  the  assessors  of  the  city  in  the  same  manner  in  which  other 
taxes  are  assessed,  until  the  debt  is  extinguished. 

Section  3.  If,  after  the  acquisition  of  said  land  and  the  comjiletion 
and  equipment  of  said  training  or  model  school  by  expenditures  borne 
equally  by  the  commonwealth  and  the  city  of  Salem,  any  balance  of  the 
sum  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  commonwealth  by  said  city  shall  re- 
main therein,  it  shall  be  paid  over  to  the  city  by  the  treasurer  and 
receiver  general;  and  if  at  any  time  the  building,  the  erection  of  which 
is  herein  provided  for,  shall  no  longer  be  used  for  the  purposes  of  a 
training  or  model  school,  the  city  shall  be  recognized  as  the  equitable 
owner  of  one  half  of  the  land  and  building  provided  for  in  this  act  in 
any  disposition  which  shall  be  made  of  the  same. 

Section  4.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  sec- 
tions one  and  two  of  this  act,  the  board  of  education  may,  in  the  name 
and  behalf  of  the  commonwealth,  from  time  to  time,  take,  or  acquire 
by  purchase  or  otherwise,  such  lands,  buildings  and  rights  in  land  in 
addition  to  those  already  acquired  as  in  its  opinion  may  be  necessary 
to  accomplish  the  purposes  of  this  act.  In  the  event  of  the  taking  of 
any  lands,  buildings  or  rights  in  land  by  said  board  of  education,  the 
board  shall  file  in  the  proper  registry  of  deeds  a  description  thereof, 
sufficiently  accurate  for  identification,  with  a  statement  signed  by  the 


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said  board  or  by  a  majority  thereof,  that  the  same  are  taken  under 
the  provisions  of  this  act  in  tlie  name  and  belialf  of  the  commonwealth; 
and  the  said  act  and  time  of  filing  shall  be  deemed  to  be  the  act  and 
time  of  the  taking  of  such  lands,  buildings  or  rights  in  land  and  shall 
be  sufficient  notice  to  all  persons  that  the  same  have  been  so  taken. 
The  title  to  the  lands,  buildings  and  rights  in  land  so  taken  shall  vest 
absolutely  in  the  commonwealth  and  its  assigns  forever.  The  common- 
wealth shall  pay  all  damages  sustained  by  any  person  by  reason  of 
any  taking  under  authority  of  this  act.  Said  board  shall  estimate  the 
damages  for  such  taking  and  submit  the  estimate  to  the  governor  and 
council  for  approval,  and  may,  with  the  approval  of  the  governor  and 
council,  agree  with  any  such  person  upon  the  damages  to  be  paid  for 
such  taking.  If  said  damages  cannot  be  so  agreed  upon,  such  person 
may,  within  two  years  after  the  taking,  file  in  the  clerk's  office  of  the 
superior  court  for  the  county  of  Essex  a  petition  for  the  determination 
of  the  damages,  and  thereuj^on  the  court  shall  appoint  a  commission 
consisting  of  three  disinterested  persons  to  whom  the  petition  shall  be 
referred,  and  who  shall  determine  the  damages  and  report  thereon  to 
the  court.  Said  board  shall,  upon  approval  by  the  governor  and  coun- 
cil of  its  estimate  of  damages,  or  upon  the  filing  of  any  determination 
made  by  a  commission  as  aforesaid,  offer,  in  behalf  of  the  common- 
wealth, to  pay  the  pei-son  sustaining  damages  by  reason  of  such  taking 
the  amount  so  estimated  or  determined,  and  if  such  person  shall,  in 
accordance  with  such  notice  and  within  one  year  after  being  so  notified, 
deliver  a  satisfactory  release  of  the  damages  to  the  board,  the  board 
shall  certify  to  the  treasurer  of  the  commonwealth  the  amount  to  be 
paid  to  such  person,  and  the  treasurer  shall  pay  the  same.  Said  board 
or  any  person  whose  property  is  taken  under  the  right  of  eminent 
domain,  if  dissatisfied  with  any  determination  of  damages  made  by  any 
commission,  may,  within  one  year  after  the  time  when  such  determina- 
tion is  filed  in  court,  file  in  said  court  under  the  number  and  title  of 
the  petition  a  claim  for  a  trial  by  jury  to  determine  the  damages,  and 
thereupon  the  damages  upon  the  petition  shall  be  determined  by  a  jury 
in  said  court  in  the  same  manner  as  if  the  petition  had  come  before 
a  jury  for  its  determination  of  damages  in  the  first  instance.  The  com- 
missioners shall  receive  such  compensation  as  may  be  determined  by 
the  court.  If,  upon  hearing  by  the  commissioners  or  upon  trial,  dam- 
ages are  increased  beyond  the  amount  which  the  commonwealth  offered 
to  pay  therefor  prior  to  the  appointment  of  the  commission  or  to  the 
trial,  as  the  case  may  be,  the  person  sustaining  damage  by  reason  of 
the  taking  shall  recover  costs;  otherwise  such  person  shall  pay  costs, 
and  costs  shall  be  taxed  as  in  civil  cases. 


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DEGREES  BY   COLLEGES,  ETC. 

Chapter  481. 

Ax  Act  relative  to  the  grantiistg  op  degrees  by  colleges  and 

OTHER    INSTITUTIONS    OF    LEARNING. 

Section  1.  On  or  before  the  first  day  of  January,  a  petition  described 
in  section  sis  of  chapter  three  of  the  Revised  Laws  shall  be  deposited 
in  the  office  of  the  board  of  education.  The  board  of  education  shall 
transmit  such  petition  to  the  general  court  during  the  first  week  of  the 
session,  together  with  its  recommendations  relative  thereto. 

Section  2.  So  much  of  section  seven  of  chapter  three  of  the  Revised 
Laws  as  is  inconsistent  herewith  is  hereby  repealed. 

The  foregoing  legislation  relates  to  giving  colleges  and  other 
institutions  of  learning  the  power  to  grant  degrees,  and  requires 
that  before  the  Legislature  takes  action  upon  any  petition  for 
the  right  to  grant  degi'ees  the  same  shall  be  submitted  by  the 
petitioners  to  the  Board  of  Education  and  that  the  Board  shall 
make  recommendations  on  said  petition. 

Petitioners  for  the  right  to  gTant  degrees  should  also  note  the 
requirements  of  sections  6  and  7  of  chapter  3  of  the  Revised 
Laws. 


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PART    II.  —  LEGISLATION    OF    GENERAL    IMPORT 
TO   SCHOOL  AUTIiORITIES. 


SCHOOL   RETURNS   AND   STATISTICS. 

Chapter  368. 

An    Act   to    provide    for    securing   earlier    returns    of    scHOOii 

STATISTICS. 

Section  1.  Section  one  of  chapter  forty-three  of  the  Revised  LaAvs 
is  hereby  amended  by  striking  out  the  words  "  secretary  of  the  board  ", 
in  the  first  line,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  word :  —  commis- 
sioner, —  by  striking  out  the  word  "  secretary  ",  in  the  fifth  line,  and 
inserting  in  place  thereof  the  word :  —  chairman,  —  by  striking  out  the 
words  "  secretary  of  the  board  ",  in  the  eighth  line,  and  inserting  in 
place  thereof  the  word :  —  commissioner,  —  by  striking  out  the  words 
"  not  more  than  twelve  hundred  dollars  ",  in  the  eleventh  line,  and  by 
inserting  after  the  woi'd  "  committees ",  in  the  thirteenth  line,  the 
words :  —  such  sums  as  shall  be  appropriated  by  the  general  court 
annually,  payable  out  of  the  treasury  of  the  commonwealth,  —  so  as  to 
read  as  follows :  - —  Section  1.  The  commissioner  of  education  shall 
send  forms  for  the  school  census  required  by  section  three,  the  school 
registers,  forms  for  the  returns  to  be  made  by  school  committees,  the 
annual  report  of  the  board  and  his  own  annual  report,  as  soon  as  they 
are  ready  for  distribution,  to  the  chairman  of  the  school  committee  of 
each  city  and  town,  who  shall,  on  receipt  thereof,  deliver  them  to  the 
several  persons  charged  with  the  duties  in  connection  therewith,  and 
send  to  the  commissioner  of  education  a  list  of  the  private  schools  in 
the  city  or  town  and  the  names  of  their  principals.  The  board  of  edu- 
cation may  annually  expend  for  the  printing  and  distribution  of  said 
school  registers  and  forms  for  returns  of  school  committees  such  sums 
as  shall  be  appropriated  by  the  general  court  annually,  payable  out  of 
the  treasury  of  the  commonwealth. 

Section  2,  Section  two  of  said  chapter  forty-three  is  hereby 
amended  by  striking  out  the  word  "  secretary  ",  in  the  first  line,  and 
inserting  in  place  thereof  the  word :  —  chairman,  —  by  striking  out 
the  word  "  April  ",  in  the  third  line,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the 
word :  —  July,  —  and  by  striking  out  the  words  "  secretary  of  the 
board  ",  in  the  third  and  fourth  lines,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof 


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the  word :  —  commissioner,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Section  2. 
The  chairman  of  every  school  committee  who  does  not  receive  blank 
forms  of  inquiry  for  school  returns,  on  or  before  the  fifth  day  of  July, 
shall  forthwith  notify  the  commissioner  of  education  thereof,  who  shall 
thereupon  transmit  them  to  him. 

Section  3.  Section  four  of  said  chapter  forty-three  is  hereby 
amended  by  striking  out  the  said  section,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof 
the  following :  —  Section  4.  The  chairman  of  each  school  committee 
shall  annually  on  or  before  the  thirty-first  day  of  July  transmit  to  the 
commissioner  of  education  a  certificate  filled  out,  signed  and  sworr\ 
to  by  him,  containing  the  following  statements :  — 

First.  The  number  of  persons  between  the  ages  of  five  and  fifteen 
years,  and  the  number  of  persons  between  the  ages  of  seven  and  four- 
teen years,  residing  in  the  town  (or  city),  according  to  the  school 
census  taken  on  the  first  day  of  September,  last  preceding  the  date  of 
this  certificate. 

Second.  The  number  of  persons  in  the  average  membership  of  the 
public  scliools  of  the  town  (or  city),  for  the  school  year  last  preceding 
the  date  of  the  certificate,  as  determined  by  the  rules  of  the  state  school 
register. 

Third.  The  amount  of  money  raised  by  taxation  by  the  town  (or 
city),  and  expended  during  the  school  year  last  preceding  the  date  of 
the  certificate  for  the  support  of  the  public  schools,  including  the  wages 
of  teachers,  the  transportation  of  school  children,  fuel,  the  care  of  fires, 
schoolrooms  and  school  premises,  repairs,  supervision,  text-books  and 
supplies,  and  school  sundries  or  incidentals,  but  excluding  alterations 
of  school  buildings,  other  than  repairs,  and  construction  of  schoolhouses 
and  contributions  for  the  support  of  public  schools  which  may  be  re- 
ceived from  the  commonwealth  or  from  other  sources  than  local  taxation. 

Fourth.  That  the  town  (or  city)  has  maintained  during  the  school 
years  last  preceding  the  date  of  the  certificate  each  of  the  schools,  as 
required  by  section  one  of  chapter  forty-two  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as 
amended  by  chapter  one  hundred  and  eighty-one  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  and  by  chapter  five  hundred  and 
twenty-four  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten,  for  a 
period  of  not  less  than  thirty-two  weeks,  or  twenty-eight  weeks,  if  such 
reduction  has  been  allowed  under  the  provisions  of  the  aforesaid  section. 

Fifth.     That  the  town   (or  city)   has  maintained,  during  the  school 
year  last  preceding  the  date  of  the  certificate,  a  high  school,  as  required 
by  section  two  of  said  chapter  forty-two,  for  a  period  of 
months  days,  as  stated. 

The  board  of  education  is  authoi'ized  and  directed  to  prepare  and 
furnish  to  school  committees  suitable  fonns  of  the  certificate  required 
by  this  section. 

Section    4.      Section    five    of    said    chapter    forh'-three    is    hereby 


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amended  by  striking  out  the  word  "  April  ",  in  the  third  line,  and  in- 
serting in  place  thereof  the  word :  —  Jnly,  —  and  by  striking  out  the 
words  "  secretary  of  the  board  ",  in  the  fourth  line,  and  inserting  in 
place  thereof  the  Avord :  —  commissioner,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

—  Section  5.  School  committees  shall  cause  the  school  registers  to  be 
faithfully  kept  in  all  tlie  public  schools,  and  shall  annually,  on  or 
before  the  last  daj'  of  July,  make  returns  on  the  aforesaid  forms  of 
inquiry  to  the  commissioner  of  education;  and  school  committees  of 
towns  shall  also  specify  therein  the  purposes  to  which  the  money  re- 
ceived by  their  respective  towns  from  the  income  of  the  school  fund 
has  been  appropriated.  In  such  returns,  twenty  days,  or  forty  half 
days  of  actual  session,  shall  be  counted  as  one  month. 

Section  5.  Section  six  of  said  chapter  forty-three  is  hereby 
amended  by  striking  out  the  words  "  secretary  of  said  board  ",  in  the 
seventh  line,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  words :  —  commissioner 
of  education,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Section  6.  They  shall  an- 
nually make  a  detailed  report  of  the  condition  of  the  several  public 
schools,  which  shall  contain  any  statements  or  suggestions  relative  to 
the  schools  which  the  committee  consider  necessary  or  proper.  They 
shall  cause  said  report  to  be  printed,  for  the  use  of  the  inhabitants, 
in  octavo,  pamphlet  form,  of  the  size  of  the  annual  reports  of  the 
board  of  education,  and  transmit  two  copies  thereof  to  the  commis- 
sioner of  education  on  or  before  the  last  day  of  April,  and  shall  deposit 
one  copy  in  the  office  of  the  city  or  town  clerk. 

Section  6.  Section  seven  of  said  chapter  forty-three  is  hereby 
amended  by  striking  out  the  words  "  secretary  of  the  board  ",  in  the 
third  line,  and  inserting  in  jalace  thereof  the  word :  —  commissioner, 

—  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Section  7.  If  a  school  committee  fails, 
within  the  prescribed  time,  to  make  either  the  returns  or  the  report 
required  of  it  by  law,  the  commissioner  of  education  shall  forthwith 
notify  it  of  such  failure,  and  it  shall  immediately  cause  the  same  to  be 
transmitted  to  him. 

Section  7.  Section  eight  of  said  chapter  forty-three  is  hereby 
amended  by  striking  out  the  words  "  secretary  of  the  board ",  in  the 
second  line,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  word :  —  commissioner, 

—  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Section  8.  If  a  return  is  found  to  be 
irregular  or  incorrect,  the  commissioner  of  education  shall  forthwith 
return  it  with  a  statement  of  all  deficiencies  therein,  to  the  school  com- 
mittee for  correction,  and  it  shall  promj^tly  correct  and  return  it. 

Section  8.  Section  nine  of  said  chapter  forty-three  is  hereby 
amended  by  striking  out  the  words  "  secretary  of  the  board  ",  in  the 
second  line,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  word :  —  commissioner, 

—  by  striking  out  the  word  "  May  ",  in  the  third  line,  and  inserting 
in  place  thereof  the  word :  —  August,  —  and  by  striking  out  the  word 
"  June  ",  in  the  sixth  and  tenth  lines,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the 


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word :  —  September,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Section  9.  A  town 
whose  report  or  returns  do  not  reach  the  office  of  the  commissioner  of 
education  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  August  shall  forfeit  ten 
per  cent  of  the  income  of  the  school  fund  to  which  it  would  otherwise 
have  been  entitled.  If  such  report  or  returns  do  not  reach  said  office 
before  the  first  day  of  September,  the  town's  share  of  said  income  shall 
be  retained  by  the  treasurer  and  receiver  general,  and  shall  be  added 
to  the  principal  of  the  school  fund.  A  town  which  is  not  entitled  to 
a  portion  of  the  school  fund,  and  a  city,  whose  report  or  returns  do 
not  reach  said  office  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  September,  shall  for- 
feit to  the  school  fund  two  hundred  dollars. 

Section  9.  Section  eleven  of  said  chapter  forty-three  is  hereby 
amended  by  striking  out  the  word  "  secretaiy  ",  in  the  tenth  line,  and 
inserting  in  place  thereof  the  words :  —  commissioner  of  education,  — 
by  inserting  after  the  word  "  forty-four  ",  in  the  twentieth  and  twenty- 
first  lines,  the  words :  —  as  amended  by  chapter  three  hundred  and 
twenty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  five,  and  by  chap- 
ter three  hundred  and  eighty-three  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  six,  —  and  by  inserting  after  the  word  "  forty-six ",  in 
the  twenty-first  line,  the  words :  —  as  amended  by  chapter  three  hun- 
dred and  thirty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  three, 
and  by  chapter  two  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nine- 
teen hundred  and  four,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Section  11.  The 
several  school  teachers  shall  faithfully  keep  the  registers  of  attendance 
daily,  and  make  due  return  thereof  to  the  school  committee  or  to  such 
person  as  the  committee  may  designate.  No  teacher  of  a  public  school 
shall  receive  payment  for  services  for  the  two  weeks  preceding  the 
close  of  any  term  until  the  register,  properly  filled  ujd  and  completed 
is  so  returned.  All  registers  shall  be  kept  at  the  schools,  and  at  all 
times  during  school  hours  shall  be  open  to  the  inspection  of  the  school 
committee,  the  superintendent  of  schools,  the  truant  officers  and  the 
commissioner  of  education  and  agents  of  the  board  of  education.  In 
reckoning  the  average  membershii?  and  the  percentage  of  attendance 
in  the  schools,  no  pupil's  name  shall  be  omitted  in  counting  the  number 
of  persons  belonging  to  the  school  and  the  number  of  absences  of  such 
persons  until  it  is  known  that  such  pupil  has  withdrawn  from  the  school 
without  intention  of  returning  or,  in  the  absence  of  such  knowledge, 
until  ten  consecutive  days  of  absence  have  been  recorded;  but  the  fore- 
going provision  for  computing  the  average  membership  and  the  per- 
centage of  attendance  shall  not  affect  proceedings  against  habitual 
truants,  absentees  or  school  offendei's,  or  other  persons,  under  the 
provisions  of  section  one  of  chapter  forty-four,  as  amended  by  chai)ter 
three  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred 
and  five,  and  by  chapter  three  hundred  and  eighty-three  of  the  acts 
of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  six,  and  sections  three,  four  and  five 


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of  chapter  forty-six,  as  amended  by  chapter  three  hundred  and  thirty 
of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  three,  and  by  chapter  two 
hundred  and  twenty  of  the  acts  of  the  j'ear  nineteen  hundred  and  four, 
A  pupil  who  is  not  present  during  at  least  half  of  a  session  shall  be 
marked  and  counted  as  absent  for  that  session. 

By  means  of  the  above  legislation,  the  Board  of  Education  is 
now  able  — 

1.  To  secure  and  publish  school  statistics  for  the  school  year 
ending  June  30,  six  months  before  the  date  of  its  annual  report 
to  the  General  Court.  Heretofore  the  data  for  any  school  year 
could  not  be  published  until  a  year  and  a  half  after  the  close 
of  the  school  year  to  which  they  applied. 

2.  The  statistics  on  school  attendance  and  membership,  and 
on  school  expenditures,  are  now  for  one  and  the  same  school 
year,  so  that  comparisons  and  per  capita  statements  are  more 
accurate  and  valuable  than  was  the  case  when  the  fiscal  year, 
as  heretofore  reported,  did  not  coincide  with  the  year  for  school 
attendance  and  membership. 

Conferences  were  held  with  superintendents  of  schools 
throughout  the  State,  at  which  the  new  plan  of  school  statistics 
was  explained,  and  the  approval  of  the  superintendents  secured, 
before  the  legislation  was  proposed  by  the  Board. 

SUPERINTENDENCY  UNIONS. 

Chapter   114. 
An  Act  to  secure  equality  of  representation  of  towns  on  the 

JOINT   committee  OF  A   SUPERINTENDENCY   UNION, 

Section  1.  Section  forty-three  of  chapter  forty-two  of  the  Revised 
Laws  as  amended  by  chapter  three  hundred  and  ninety-nine  of  the  acts 
of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  is  hereby  further  amended 
by  striking  out  the  word  "  which  ",  in  the  twelfth  line,  and  inserting 
in  place  thereof  the  words :  —  provided,  that  any  school  committee  con- 
sisting of  more  than  three  members  shall  be  represented  on  the  joint 
committee  by  its  chairman  and  two  members,  chosen  by  said  school 
committee.  This  joint  committee,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Sec- 
tion 43.  The  school  committees  of  two  or  more  towns  the  valuation  of 
each  of  which  is  less  than  two  million  five  hundred  thousand  dollars, 
and  the  aggregate  number  of  schools  in  all  of  which  is  not  more  than 
fifty  nor  less  than  twenty-five,  and  the  school  committees  of  four  or  more 


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towns  the  valuation  of  each  of  which  does  not  exceed  two  million  five 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  without  reference  to  the  minimum  limit  in 
the  aggi'egate  number  of  schools  aforesaid,  shall  form  a  union  for  the 
purpose  of  employing  a  superintendent  of  schools.  The  school  com- 
mittees of  such  towns  shall  be  a  joint  committee :  provided,  that  any 
school  committee  consisting  of  more  than  three  members  shall  be  rejDre- 
sented  on  the  joint  committee  by  its  chairman  and  two  members,  chosen 
by  said  school  committee.  This  joint  committee,  for  the  purjDoses  of 
such  union,  shall  be  the  agents  of  each  town  therein.  Such  union  shall 
not  be  dissolved  except  by  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  towns  constituting 
the  union,  and  the  consent  of  the  board  of  education  to  such  dissolution, 
nor  shall  it  be  dissolved  for  the  reason  that  the  valuation  of  any  one 
of  the  towns  shall  have  so  increased  as  to  exceed  two  million  five  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars,  nor  for  the  reason  that  the  number  of  schools 
shall  have  increased  beyond  fifty  or,  in  a  union  of  less  than  four  towns, 
shall  have  decreased  below  twenty-five. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  July  in  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve. 

This  legislation  meets  the  needs  of  a  situation  when,  in  a 
union,  one  or  more  of  the  towns  limit  the  membership  of  the 
school  committee  to  3,  while  in  other  towns  of  the  same  union, 
6  or  more  members  constitute  the  school  committee,  with  result- 
ing inequality  of  representation  in  the  joint  committee  of  the 
union. 

DELINQUENT    CHILDREN   AND    THE   COMMISSION  ON    PRO- 
BATION. 

Chapter  187. 

An  Act  relative  to  supervision  op  probation  work  for  wayward 

AND  delinquent   CHILDREN. 

Section  1.  Section  fourteen  of  chapter  four  hundred  and  thirteen 
of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  six  is  hereby  amended  by 
striking  out  the  words  "  state  board  of  charity  ",  in  the  first  line,  and 
substituting  the  words :  —  commission  on  probation,  —  so  as  to  read  as 
follows :  —  Section  14.  The  commission  on  probation  shall  have  au- 
thority to  supervise  the  probation  work  for  wayward  and  delinquent 
children,  and  to  make  such  inquiries  as  it  considers  necessary  in  regard 
to  the  same,  and  in  its  annual  report  may  make  such  recommendations 
as  it  considers  advisable  for  the  improvement  of  methods  of  dealing 
with  such  chUdren. 


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MINORS    AND    COMPULSORY   EDUCATION. 

Chapter  191. 
An  Act  to  define  the  word  "  minor  "  as  applied  to  compulsory 
attendance  at  day  schools. 
The  third  paragraph  of  section  seventeen  of  chapter  five  hundred  and 
fourteen  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  nine,  as  amended 
by  chapter  two  hundred  and  forty-one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  eleven,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  inserting  after  the 
word  "  at  ",  in  the  fourth  line,  the  words :  —  day  or,  —  so  as  to  read 
as  follows:  —  "  Child  "  or  "  Minor  "  shall  mean  a  person  under  eighteen 
years  of  age,  except  that  in  regard  to  the  compulsory  attendance  of 
illiterate  minoi-s  at  day  or  evening  schools,  the  word  "  Minor "  shall 
mean  a  person  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years. 

APPOINTMENT    OF    SCHOOL   ATTENDANCE    OFFICERS. 

Chapter  552. 
An    Act    relative    to    the    appointment    of    school    attendance 

officers. 
Section  1.  Section  twelve  of  chapter  forty-six  of  the  Revised  Laws 
is  hereby  amended  by  striking  out  the  word  "  truant ",  wherever  it 
occurs  in  said  section,  and  substituting  therefor  the  words :  —  school 
attendance,  —  also  by  inserting  after  the  word  "  officers  ",  in  the  second 
line,  the  words :  —  who  may  be  either  male  or  female  as  the  committee 
may  decide,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Section  12.  The  school  com- 
mittee of  every  city  and  town  shall  appoint  and  fix  the  compensation  of 
one  or  more  school  attendance  oflScers,  who  may  be  either  male  or  female 
as  the  committee  may  decide,  and  shall  make  regulations  for  their  gov- 
ernment. School  attendance  officers  shall  not  receive  fees  for  their 
services.  The  school  committees  of  two  or  more  cities  or  towns  may 
employ  the  same  school  attendance  officers. 

APPOINTMENT    OF    TRUANT    OFFICERS. 

Chapter  711. 
An  Act  relative  to  the  appointment  of  truant  officers. 
Section  1.  Section  twelve  of  chapter  forty-six  of  the  Revised  Laws, 
as  amended  by  chapter  five  hundred  and  fifty-two  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  strik- 
ing out  the  words  "  school  attendance  ",  wherever  they  occur  in  said 
section,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  word :  —  truant,  —  so  as  to 
read  as  follows :  —  Section  12.  The  school  committee  of  every  city  and 
town  shall  appoint  and  fix  the  compensation  of  one  or  more  truant 


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officers,  who  may  be  either  male  or  female  as  the  committee  may  decide, 
and  shall  make  regulations  for  their  government.  Truant  officers  shall 
not  receive  fees  for  their  services.  The  school  committees  of  two  or 
more  cities  or  towns  may  emj^loy  the  same  truant  officers. 

It  will  be  noted  that  this  act  provides  that  truant  officers  may 
be  either  male  or  female. 

EVENING   CLASSES   FOR  WOMEN  IN  THE   PRACTICAL  ARTS. 

Chapter  106. 
An  Act  to  provide  for  the  establishment  and  maintenance  op 
evening  classes  in  the  practical  arts  for  women. 
Any  city  or  town  may,  through  its  school  committee,  or  other  board 
of  trustees  for  vocational  education,  establish  and  maintain  separate 
evening  classes  in  household  and  other  practical  arts.  Such  classes  shall 
be  known  as  practical  art  classes,  shall  be  open  to  all  women  over 
seventeen  years  of  age  who  are  employed  in  any  capacity  during  the 
day,  and  may  be  established  and  maintained  as  approved  state-aided 
practical  art  classes  under  the  provisions  of,  and  subject  to  all  the  con- 
ditions, not  inconsistent  with  this  act,  of  chapter  four  hundred  and 
seventy-one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven. 

These  are  to  be  vocational  evening  schools,  but  of  a  character 
different  from  the  vocational  schools  provided  for  by  chapter 
471  of  the  Acts  of  1911,  in  that  pupils  are  not  required  to  follow 
during  the  day  the  occupations  in  which  training  is  given  during 
the  evening.  Such  schools  must  be  supervised  by  the  Massa- 
chusetts Board  of  Education. 

STATE    SCHOLARSHIPS    IN    THE     MASSACHUSETTS     INSTI- 
TUTE   OF    TECHNOLOGY. 

Chapter  168. 
An  Act  relative  to  free  scholarships  to  be  maintained  by  the 
massachusetts  institute  of  technology. 
Chapter  seventy-eight  of  the  resolves  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred 
and  eleven  is  hereby  amended  by  inserting  after  the  word  "  districts  ", 
in  the  twenty-eighth  line,  the  words :  —  If  three  or  more  properly  quali- 
fied candidates  make  application  from  any  senatorial  district,  the  board 
of  education  shall,  at  the  request  of  the  senator  from  that  district,  grant 
four  half  scholarships,  or  two  half  scholarships  and  one  whole  scholar- 
ship, or  two  whole  scholarships  from  that  district,  —  so  as  to  read  as 
follows :  —  Resolved,  That  there  shall  annually  be  paid  from  the  treas- 


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ury  of  the  oommonwealth  to  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 
for  the  term  of  ten  years,  beginning  with  the  first  day  of  January  in 
the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  to  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  the  corporation  of  said 
institute  for  the  general  purposes  of  the  institute:  provided,  however, 
that  the  payment  for  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  seventeen  and  for 
the  four  following  years  shall  be  conditioned  upon  the  pi'esentation  of 
satisfactory  evidence  to  the  governor  and  council  that  the  said  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  has  received,  by  bequest  or  gift  from 
other  sources,  the  sum  of  one  million  dollars  in  addition  to  all  the  funds 
held  by  it  on  the  day  of  the  approval  of  this  resolve.  In  consideration 
of  the  said  payments  and  during  the  continuance  thereof,  the  Massachu- 
setts Institute  of  Technology  shall  maintain  eighty  free  scholarships 
to  be  granted  by  the  board  of  education  to  residents,  or  minor  children 
of  residents  of  Massachusetts  who,  upon  examination  conducted  under 
such  rules  and  regulations  as  the  president  of  the  said  institute  may 
prescribe,  shall  be  found  to  possess  the  qualifications  fixed  for  the  ad- 
mission of  students  to  the  institute.  Two  such  scholarships  shall  be 
available  annually  for  properly  qualified  candidates  from  each  sena- 
torial district,  but  if  there  be  less  than  two  properly  qualified  candidates 
in  any  senatorial  district,  such  number  of  scholarships,  less  in  amount 
than  two  from  each  district,  may  then  be  distributed  by  the  board  of 
education  among  the  other  senatorial  districts.  If  three  or  more  prop- 
erly qualified  candidates  make  application  from  any  senatorial  district, 
the  board  of  education  shall,  at  the  request  of  the  senator  from  that 
district,  grant  four  half  scholarships,  or  two  half  scholarships  and  one 
whole  scholarship,  or  two  whole  scholarships  from  that  district.  Candi- 
dates for  these  scholarships  shall  make  application  to  the  board  of 
education  before  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year,  and  shall  forward 
to  that  board  the  approval  in  writing  of  the  senator  from  the  district 
in  which  the  candidate  resides.  In  awarding  the  scholarships  prefer- 
ence shall  be  given  to  properly  qualified  candidates  who  are  otherwise 
unable  to  bear  the  expense  of  tuition. 

All  acts  and  resolves  and  parts  of  acts  and  resolves  heretofore  passed 
authorizing  the  annual  appropriation  of  funds  by  the  commonwealth 
for  the  maintenance  of  free  or  state  scholarships  in  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  or  prescribing  the  conditions  under  which  such 
scholarships  shall  be  awarded,  are  hereby  repealed. 

The  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  shall  transmit  each  year 
copies  of  the  annual  report  of  its  president  to  the  general  court. 

The  eighty  half  scholarships  now  in  force,  as  shown  by  the  records 
of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  shall  continue  in  full 
force  and  effect  until  the  end  of  the  course  for  which  they  were  given, 
after  which  time  all  future  scholarships  shall  be  filled  under  the  regu- 
lations and  conditions  herein  prescribed. 


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The  amendment  to  this  act  permits  a  division  of  the  two 
scholarships  allotted  to  any  given  senatorial  district  into  four 
half  scholarships,  or  two  half  and  one  whole  scholarship,  when 
the  senator  from  said  district  shall  so  request. 

STATE   SCHOLARSHIPS  IN   THE  WORCESTER  POLYTECHNIC 

INSTITUTE. 

Chapter  87. 

Resolve  ix  favor  of  the  Worcester  polytechnic  institute. 
Besolved,  That  there  shall  annually  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury  of 
the  commonwealth  to  the  treasurer  of  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute for  the  term  of  ten  years,  beginning  with  the  first  day  of  Septem- 
ber, nineteen  hundred  and  twelve,  the  sum  of  fifty  thousand  dollars, 
to  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  the  corporation  of  said  institute 
for  the  general  purposes  of  the  institute:  provided,  hou>ever,  that  the 
payment  for  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  seventeen  and  for  the  four 
following  years  shall  be  conditioned  upon  the  presentation  of  satis- 
factory evidence  to  the  governor  and  council  that  the  institute  has  re- 
ceived by  bequest  or  gift  from  other  sources  property  amounting  in 
value  to  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  in  addition  to  the 
property  held  by  it  on  the  day  of  the  approval  of  this  resolve.  In  con- 
sideration of  such  payment  and  of  the  grant  made  by  chapter  fifty- 
seven  of  the  resolves  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-nine,  the 
Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute  shall  maintain  forty  free  scholarships, 
of  which  each  senatorial  district  in  the  commonwealth  shall  be  entitled 
to  one  fuU  scholarship,  if  a  candidate  is  presented  Avho  is  otherwise 
unable  to  bear  the  expense  of  tuition.  In  case  no  such  candidate  ap- 
pears from  a  senatorial  district,  then  a  candidate  may  be  selected  from 
the  state  at  large  to  fiU  the  vacancy,  and  he  may  continue  to  hold  the 
scholarship  annually  until  a  candidate  is  presented  from  the  senatorial 
district  unrepresented.  The  scholarships  shall  be  awarded  to  such 
pupils  of  the  public  schools  of  Massachusetts  as  shall  be  found  upon 
examination  to  possess  the  qualifications  prescribed  for  the  admission 
of  students  to  said  institute,  and  as  shall  be  selected  by  the  board  of 
education,  preference  in  the  award  being  given  only  to  qualified  candi- 
dates otherwise  unable  to  bear  the  expense  of  tuition.  Chapter  five 
hundred  and  sixty-two  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten 
is  hereby  repealed. 

It  should  be  noted  that  no  change  is  made  in  the  number  of 
free  scholarships  available  at  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  In- 
stitute. 


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USE    OF    COMMON    TOWELS. 

Chaiter  59. 

An  Act  to  restrict  the  use  of  common  towels. 

Section  1.  In  order  to  prevent  the  spread  of  communicable  diseases, 
the  state  board  of  health  is  hereby  authorized  to  jarohibit  in  hotels  and 
in  such  public  places,  vehicles  or  buildings  as  it  may  designate  the  pro- 
viding of  a  common  towel,  and  the  board  may  establish  rules  and  regu- 
lations for  this  purpose. 

Section  2,  Whoever  violates  the  provisions  of  this  act,  or  any  rule 
or  regulation  of  the  state  board  of  health  made  under  authority  hereof, 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  be  liable  to  a  fine  not  ex- 
ceeding twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Section  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  June,  nine- 
teen hundred  and  twelve. 

In  accordance  with  the  j)rovisions  of  the  above  chapter,  the 
State  Board  of  Health,  at  a  regular  meeting  held  April  4,  1912, 
voted  to  make  the  following  regulations  in  relation  to  providing 
the  common  towel :  — 

On  and  after  June  1,  1912,  it  shall  be  unlawful  to  provide  a 
common  towel  — 

(a)  In  any  building  used  as  a  public  institution,  hotel,  res- 
taurant, theatre,  public  hall  or  public  school ;  or 

(h)   In  any  railroad  station,  railroad  car,  steam  or  ferry  boat. 

The  term  "  common  towel,"  as  used  in  these  regulations,  shall 
be  considered  to  mean  a  roller  towel  or  a  towel  available  for 
use  by  more  than  one  person  without  being  washed  after  such 
use. 

PLAYGROUNDS   IN    CERTAIN   TOWNS. 

Chapter  223. 
An  Act  relative  to  public  playgrounds  in  certain  towns. 

Section  1.  Every  town  in  the  commonwealth  having  a  population 
of  more  than  five  thousand  which  accepts  the  provisions  of  this  act 
shall,  after  the  first  day  of  January  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and 
thirteen,  provide  and  thereafter  maintain  at  least  one  public  playground 
conveniently  located  and  of  suitable  size  and  equipment,  for  the  recrea- 
tion and  physical  education  of  the  minors  of  the  town. 

Section  2.  Towns  may  appoint,  and  determine  the  compensation  of, 
a  qualified  director  of  each  playgi'ound,  who  shall  direct  the  sports  and 
exercises  thereon. 


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Section  3.  In  towns  where  the  provisions  of  this  act  are  not  already 
satisfied,  land  for  the  purpose  aforesaid  may  be  taken  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  sections  nineteen  and  twenty  of  chapter  twenty- 
eight  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as  amended  by  sections  one  and  two  of  chap- 
ter five  hundred  and  eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and 
ten,  and  the  money  necessary  to  pay  for  such  land  may  be  raised  in 
accordance  with  section  twenty-one  of  said  chapter,  and  any  land  owned 
by  the  town  may  be  set  aside  by  vote  of  the  selectmen  for  the  purposes 
of  this  act. 

Section  4.  In  towns  which  have  a  population  of  more  than  five 
thousand  and  which  have  not  already  satisfied  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  at  the  request  of  ten  per  cent  of  the  voters,  by  petition  to  the  select- 
men filed  fifteen  days  before  the  day  of  the  annual  election  of  town 
officers,  the  following  question  shall  be  placed  on  the  official  ballot  at 
the  next  town  election:  Shall  chapter  of  the  year  nineteen  hun- 
dred and  twelve  requiring  certain  towns  to  provide  public  playgrounds 
be  accepted  by  this  town? 

Section  5.  This  act  shall  take  effect  in  any  town  to  which  it  applies 
tii^on  its  acceptance  by  a  majority  of  the  voters  voting  as  aforesaid. 

USE    OF    SCHOOL    HALLS. 

Chapter  320. 
An  Act  relative  to  the  use  of  rooms  or  halls  in  school  buildings 

FOR  other  than   SCHOOL  PURPOSES. 

Section  1.  Section  one  of  chapter  three  hundred  and  sixty-seven  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven  is  hereby  amended  by 
striking  out  the  word  "  may  ",  in  the  second  line,  and  inserting  in  place 
thereof  the  word :  —  shall,  —  and  by  inserting  after  the  word  "  of  ", 
in  the  third  line,  the  words :  — -  rooms  or,  —  and  by  striking  out  the 
words  "  for  which  no  admission  fee  is  charged  ",  in  the  fifth  line  and 
by  adding  at  the  end  thereof  the  words :  —  and  that  such  use  shall 
not  be  granted  during  the  regular  sessions  of  the  school  unless  the 
means  of  egress  have  been  approved  for  such  purpose  by  an  inspector 
of  public  buildings  of  the  district  police,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  — 
Section  1.  The  school  committee  of  any  city  or  town  which  accepts  the 
provisions  of  this  act  shall  grant  the  temporaiy  use  of  rooms  or  halls 
in  school  buildings  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  and  for  such  public 
or  educational  purposes,  as  the  said  school  committee  may  deem  wise: 
provided,  Jiowever,  that  such  use  shall  not  in  any  way  interfere  or  be 
inconsistent  with  the  use  of  the  halls  for  school  purposes,  and  that  such 
use  shall  not  be  granted  during  the  regular  sessions  of  the  school  unless 
the  means  of  egress  have  been  approved  for  such  purpose  by  an  in- 
spector of  public  buildings  of  the  district  police. 

Section  2.  Chapter  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve  is  hereby  repealed. 


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Under  this  act  aii}'  town  or  city  may  vest  in  its  school  com- 
mittee authority  to  grant  the  use  of  school  buildings  for  public 
and  educational  purposes,  other  than  the  regular  public  school 
sessions,  under  proper  safeguards. 

INDEPENDENT   AGRICULTURAL    SCHOOL   IN    BRISTOL 

COUNTY. 

Chapter  566. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  an  independent  agricultural  school  in  the 
county  of  bristol. 

organization   and    CONTROL. 

Section  1.  At  the  next  state  election  there  shall  be  placed  upon  the 
official  ballots  for  the  county  of  Bristol  the  following  question :  — 
"  Shall  the  county  of  Bristol  establish  an  independent  agricultural 
school  ?  "  If  a  majority  of  the  voters  voting  thereon  vote  in  the  aflQrma- 
tive,  the  governor  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  council,  shall 
aiDpoint  four  persons,  one  for  the  term  of  one  year,  one  for  the  term 
of  two  years,  one  for  the  term  of  three  years  and  one  for  the  term  of 
four  years,  and  thereafter  annually  one  for  the  term  of  four  years, 
residents  of  the  county,  who,  together  with  the  county  commissioners 
for  the  county,  shall  be  known  as  the  Trustees  of  the  Independent 
Agricultural  School  of  Bristol  County.  Said  trustees  shall  serve  with- 
out compensation  but  shall  be  reimbursed  for  their  necessary  expenses, 
the  same  to  be  charged  and  paid  on  account  of  maintenance,  as  herein- 
after provided. 

Section  2.  The  said  trustees  are  hereby  authorized  to  determine  the 
location  of  the  said  school,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  board  of 
education,  and  to  expend  an  amount  not  exceeding  thirty  thousand 
dollars  in  the  purchase  of  real  estate  and  the  construction  or  alteration 
of  buildings  therefor.  In  order  to  provide  the  share  to  be  paid  by  the 
county  of  the  cost  of  establishing  and  equipping  the  said  school,  the 
county  commissioners  are  hereby  authorized  to  issue  bonds  of  the  county 
to  an  amount  not  exceeding  thirty  thousand  dollars.  The  said  bonds 
shall  be  issued  for  a  term  not  exceeding  twenty  j^ears,  and  shall  bear 
interest  at  a  rate  not  exceeding  four  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  semi- 
annually. The  county  commissioners  may,  by  vote,  provide  for  the 
payment  of  the  said  loan  by  such  proportionate  or  other  annual  pay- 
ments as  will  extinguish  the  debt  at  maturity,  but  in  such  a  manner 
that  the  interest  payable  in  any  one  year,  together  with  that  part  of  the 
principal  which  is  payable  in  the  same  year,  shall  not  be  less  than  the 
aggregate  amount  of  principal  and  interest  payable  in  any  subsequent 
year.  When  such  a  vote  has  been  passed,  the  annual  amount  required 
shall,  without  further  vote,  be  assessed  according  to  the  provisions  of 


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law  relating  to  the  assessment  of  county  taxes.  After  the  construction 
and  equipment  of  the  said  school,  the  county  shall  annually  raise  by 
taxation  a  sum  not  exceeding  eight  thousand  dollars  for  the  share  of 
the  county  in  the  maintenance  of  the  said  school. 

ADMINISTEATIOIT. 

Section  3.  Any  school  established  under  this  act  shall  be  established 
and  maintained  as  an  approved  school,  subject  to  the  provisions  of 
chapter  four  hundred  and  seventy-one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  eleven,  and  of  any  amendments  thereof,  and  the  county 
shall  be  reimbursed  for  expenditures  incurred  in  its  maintenance  in  the 
manner  and  to  the  extent  provided  for  the  reimbursement  of  cities  and 
towns  by  the  said  chapter  and  any  amendments  thereof. 

SUPPORT. 

Section  4.  The  said  trustees  shall  annually  prepare,  on  or  before 
the  fifteenth  day  of  December,  an  estimate  of  the  amount  required  to 
maintain  the  school  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  said  amount  shall  be  in- 
cluded in  the  estimate  required  by  section  twenty-seven  of  chapter 
twenty-one  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as  amended;  and  if  the  expenditure 
of  the  amount  so  estimated  or  any  part  thereof  shall  be  authorized  by 
the  general  court,  the  said  trustees  shall,  subject  to  the  provisions  of 
said  chapter  four  hundred  and  seventy-one,  expend  the  same  for  the 
purpose  hereinbefore  stated. 

NON-RESIDENT  PUPILS. 

Section  5.  Said  school  shall  be  free  for  attendance  to  all  residents 
of  said  county  over  fourteen  and  under  twenty-five  years  of  age.  Any 
resident,  over  fourteen  and  under  twenty^five  years  of  age,  of  any  city 
or  town  in  Massachusetts  which  does  not  maintain  an  agricultural 
school,  offering  the  type  of  education  which  he  desires,  and  approved 
by  the  board  of  education,  may  make  application  for  admission  to  the 
said  school.  The  board  of  education,  whose  decision  shall  be  final,  may 
approve  or  disapprove  such  application.  In  making  its  decision,  the 
board  shall  take  into  consideration  the  opportunities  for  free  agi'icul- 
tural  training  in  the  community  in  which  the  applicant  lives,  the  finan- 
cial status  of  the  community,  the  age,  sex,  preparation,  aptitude  and 
previous  record  of  the  applicant,  and  all  other  relevant  circumstances. 
The  board  may,  however,  permit  pupils  with  limited  educational  prep- 
aration to  enter  for  a  special  course  of  study  in  horticulture,  fruit 
growing  or  dairy  farming.  The  city  or  town  in  which  the  person  re- 
sides whose  application  for  admission  to  the  said  school  has  been  ap- 
proved as  herein  provided,  shall  pay  such  tuition  fee  as  may  be  fixed 
by  the  board  of  education;  and  the  commonwealth  shall  reimburse  such 


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city  or  town  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  board  of  education  to 
the  extent  of  one  half  the  sum  expended  by  the  city  or  town  in  payment 
of  such  tuition  fee.  If  any  city  or  town  neglects  or  refuses  to  pay  for 
such  tuition  it  shall  be  liable  therefor  to  said  trustees  in  an  action  of 
contract. 

Section  6.  The  provisions  of  chapter  five  hundred  and  thirty  of  the 
acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  as  amended  by  chapter  five 
hundred  and  sixty-seven  of  the  acts  of  the  j^ear  nineteen  hundred  and 
ten,  for  half  rate  fare  upon  street  railways  shall  apply  to  pupils  of 
the  said  school. 

Section  7.  So  much  of  this  act  as  applies  to  the  referendum  shall 
take  effect  upon  its  passage,  the  remainder  upon  its  acceptance  by  the 
voters  of  the  county  as  provided  in  section  one  of  this  act. 

INDEPENDENT   AGRICULTURAL    SCHOOL   IN   ESSEX 

COUNTY. 

Chapter  587. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  an 
independent  agricultural  school  in  the  county  of  essex. 

Section  1.  At  the  next  state  election  there  shall  be  placed  upon  the 
official  ballots  for  the  county  of  Essex,  the  following  question :  —  "  Shall 
the  county  of  Essex  establish  an  independent  agTicultural  school?"  If 
a  majority  of  the  voters  voting  thereon  vote  in  the  affirmative,  then  the 
governor,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  council,  shall  appoint  four 
persons,  one  for  the  term  of  one  year,  one  for  the  term  of  two  years, 
one  for  the  term  of  three  years  and  one  for  the  term  of  four  years,  and 
thereafter  he  shall  appoint  annually  one  person  for  the  term  of  four 
years,  residents  of  the  county,  who  together  with  the  county  commis- 
sioners for  the  county  shall  be  known  as  the  trustees  of  the  independent 
agricultural  school  of  the  county  of  Essex.  Said  trustees  shall  serve 
without  compensation,  but  shall  be  reimbursed  for  their  necessary  trav- 
elling expenses,  the  same  to  be  charged  and  paid  on  account  of  main- 
tenance, as  hereinafter  provided. 

Section  2.  The  said  trustees  are  hereby  authorized  to  determine  the 
location  of  the  said  school,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  board  of 
education,  and  to  expend  the  sum  of  seventy-five  thousand  dollars  to 
be  provided  by  the  county  of  Essex,  for  the  purchase  of  real  estate  and 
the  erection  or  alteration  of  buildings  therefor.  Thereafter  the  county 
of  Essex  shall  each  year  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  said  trustees 
raise  by  taxation  a  sum  not  exceeding  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  for 
the  maintenance  of  said  school,  and  the  sum  so  raised  shall  be  paid  to 
the  said  trustees  by  the  treasurer  of  the  county  upon  their  requisition. 
In  order  to  provide  for  the  county's  expense  in  establishing  and  equip- 
ping the  agricultural  school  herein  provided  for,  the  county  eommis- 


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siouers  of  the  county  of  Essex  are  hereby  authorized  to  issue  bonds  of 
the  county  to  the  amount  of  seventy-five  thousand  dollars,  to  matm*e  in 
whole  or  in  part  in  not  less  than  twenty  years,  with  interest  at  a  rate 
not  exceeding  four  per  cent  per  annum;  and  the  sum  so  raised  shall 
be  paid  to  the  said  trustees  by  the  treasurer  of  the  county  upon  their 
requisition.  The  county  commissioners  may  by  vote  j^rovide  for  the 
payment  of  said  debt  by  such  proportionate  or  other  annual  payments 
as  will  extinguish  the  same  at  maturity,  in  such  manner  that  the  aggre- 
gate amount  of  principal  and  interest  payable  in  any  given  year  shall 
not,  together,  be  less  than  the  aggregate  amount  of  principal  and  in- 
terest paj^able  in  any  subsequent  year;  and  thereafter  such  annual 
amount  shall,  without  further  vote,  be  assessed  under  the  provisions  of 
law  relating  to  the  assessment  of  county  taxes. 

Section  3.  In  order  to  aid  in  the  maintenance  of  said  school  the 
treasurer  of  the  commonwealth  shall,  so  long  as  said  school  is  a^Dproved 
by  the  board  of  education,  pay,  as  provided  in  section  four  of  this  act 
and  upon  the  recommendation  of  said  board,  to  the  county  of  Essex 
from  money  in  the  treasury  one  half  of  the  cost  of  maintaining  said 
school,  the  yearly  pajTnents  not  to  exceed  the  sum  of  twelve  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars. 

Section  4.  The  school  authorized  by  this  act  shall  be  maintained  as 
an  approved  school  subject  to  the  provisions  of  chapter  four  hundred 
and  seventy-one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven, 
not  inconsistent  with  this  act,  and  the  county  of  Essex  shall  be  reim- 
bursed for  expenditures  incurred  in  the  maintenance,  of  the  school  in 
the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  cities  and  towns  are  reim- 
bursed under  the  j^rovisions  of  the  said  ehai^ter. 

Section  5.  1.  The  said  school  shall  be  free  for  attendance  to  all 
residents  of  said  county  over  fourteen  and  under  twenty-five  years  of 
age.  Any  resident  over  fourteen  and  under  twenty-five  years  of  age 
of  any  city  or  town  in  Massachusetts  which  does  not  maintain  an  agi'i- 
cultural  school  approved  by  the  board  of  education  and  offering  the 
type  of  training  which  he  desires,  may  make  application  for  admission 
to  the  said  school.  The  board  of  education,  whose  decision  shall  be 
final,  may  approve  or  disapprove  such  application.  In  making  its  de- 
cision the  board  of  education  shall  take  into  consideration  the  oppor- 
tunities for  free  agi'ieultural  training  in  the  community  in  which  the 
applicant  resides,  the  financial  status  of  the  community,  the  age,  sex, 
preparation,  aptitude  and  previous  record  of  the  applicant,  and  all 
other  relevant  circumstances. 

2.  The  city  or  town  in  which  the  person  resides,  whose  apiilication 
for  admission  to  the  said  school  has  been  approved  as  herein  provided, 
shall  pay  such  tuition  fee  as  may  be  fixed  by  the  board  of  education; 
and  the  commonwealth  shall  reimburse  such  city  or  town,  upon  the 
recommendation  of  the  board  of  education,  to  the  extent  of  one  half 


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the  sum  paid  by  the  city  oi'  town  as  a  tuition  fee.  If  any  city  or  town 
neglects  or  refuses  to  pay  for  such  tuition,  it  shall  be  liable  therefor 
in  an  action  of  contract  brought  by  the  trustees  of  the  school.  The  said 
trustees  are  hereby  charged  with  the  duty  and  responsibility  of  collect- 
ing all  moneys  due  the  school  for  tuition  fees,  for  the  work  of  pupils, 
from  the  sale  of  products  or  from  any  other  source  other  than  local 
taxation  and  of  paying  over  such  moneys  to  the  treasurer  of  the  county 
of  Essex. 

Section  6.  The  provisions  of  chapter  five  hundred  and  thirty  of  the 
acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight  for  half  rate  fare  upon 
street  railways  shall  apply  to  pupils  of  the  said  school. 

Section  7.  So  much  of  this  act  as  applies  to  the  referendum  shall 
take  effect  upon  its  passage,  the  residue  upon  its  acceptance  by  the 
voters  of  the  county  as  provided  in  section  one  of  this  act. 


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PAKT     III.  —  SPECIAL     LEGISLATION     EELATIN^G 
TO  SPECIFIC  COMMUNITIES  OR  INSTITUTIONS. 


SCHOOL    COMMITTEE    OF    HOLYOKE. 

Chapter  3S1. 
An  Act  relative  to  the  terms  of  office  of  the  mayor  and  city 
messenger  of  the  city  of  holyoke,  and  to  the  school  com- 
mittee of  that  city. 

Section  1.  The  term  of  office  of  the  mayor  of  the  city  of  Holyoke 
shall  hereafter  be  two  years,  and  the  tenn  of  office  of  the  city  messenger 
shall  be  three  years,  beginning  in  each  ease  with  the  municipal  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen. 

Section  2.  No  ordei's,  resolutions,  or  votes  of  the  school  committee 
of  the  city  of  Holyoke  which  involve  the  expenditure  of  money,  except 
those  fixing  salaries,  shall  be  effective  until  they  have  been  presented 
to  the  mayor  for  his  approval  and  have  been  approved  by  him  or  have 
otherwise  become  effective  under  the  provisions  of  sections  twenty-four 
and  thirty-two  of  chapter  four  hundred  and  thirty-eight  of  the  acts 
of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-six,  being  an  act  to  revise  the 
charter  of  the  city  of  Holyoke. 

Section  3.  All  janitors,  matrons,  and  other  persons  employed  in  the 
school  buildings  of  the  city  of  Holyoke  shall  be  appointed  by  and  be 
under  the  direction  of  the  school  committee  of  the  city. 

Section  4.  So  much  of  chapter  four  hundred  and  thirty-eight  of  the 
acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-six  as  is  inconsistent  here- 
with is  hereby  repealed. 

Section  5.  Section  one  of  this  act  shall  be  submitted  for  acceptance 
to  the  votei*s  of  the  city  of  Holyoke  at  the  state  election  in  the  current 
year  in  answer  to  the  following  question,  which  shall  be  printed  on  the 
official  ballot :  —  "  Shall  the  term  of  office  of  the  mayor  of 
the  city  of  Holyoke  be  two  years  and  that  of  the  city  mes- 
senger three  years  ?  "    And  if  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast 


YES. 


thereon  are  in  the  affirmative,  section  one  shall  take  effect;  otherwise 
it  shall  be  void. 

Section  6.    Except  as  to  section  one,  this  act  shall  take  effect  on  the 
first  day  of  May,  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve. 


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SCHOOL    COMMITTEE    OF    NEW    BEDFORD. 

Chapter  341. 
An  Act  relative  to  the  school  committee  of  the  city  of  new 

BEDFORD. 

Section  1.  The  school  eommitlce  of  the  city  of  New  Bedford  shall 
consist  of  the  mayor,  ex-officio,  and  six  members  who  shall  be  elected 
at  large.  In  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve  there  shall  be  elected 
at  the  annual  city  election  two  members  to  serve  for  one  year,  two  for 
two  years  and  two  for  three  years,  and  annually  thereafter  there  shall 
be  elected  two  members  to  serve  for  the  term  of  three  years. 

Section  2.  The  school  committee  shall  elect  annually  a  superin- 
tendent of  schools  and  may,  under  the  laws  regulating  the  civil  service, 
appoint,  suspend,  or  remove  at  pleasure  such  subordinate  officers  or 
assistants,  including  janitors  of  school  buildings,  as  it  may  deem  neces- 
sary for  the  proper  discharge  of  its  duties  and  the  conduct  of  its  busi- 
ness; it  shall  define  their  terms  of  service  and  their  duties  and  shall  fix 
their  compensation.  No  member  of  the  school  committee,  except  the 
mayor,  shall,  during  the  term  for  which  he  is  elected,  hold  any  other 
office  or  position  the  salary  or  compensation  for  which  is  payable  out 
of  the  city  treasury.  The  committee  shall  organize  annually  on  the  first 
Wednesday  in  January,  and  shall  elect  one  of  its  members  as  vice-chair- 
man, whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  committee 
at  which  the  mayor  is  not  present. 

Section  3.  The  school  committee,  in  addition  to  the  powers  and 
duties  pertaining  by  law  to  school  committees,  shall  have  power  to 
provide,  when  they  are  necessary,  temporary  accommodations  for  school 
purposes,  and  shall  have  the  control  of  all  school  buildings  and  of  the 
grounds  connected  therewith,  and  the  power  to  make  all  repairs,  the 
expenditures  for  which  are  made  from  the  regular  appropriation  for 
the  school  department,  except  as  is  otherwise  provided  herein. 

Section  4.  No  site  for  a  school  building  shall  be  acquired  by  the 
city  unless  the  approval  of  the  site  by  the  school  committee  is  first  ob- 
tained. No  plans  for  the  construction  of  or  alterations  in  a  school 
building  shall  be  accepted,  and  no  work  shall  be  begun  on  the  construc- 
tion or  alteration  of  a  school  building,  unless  the  approval  of  the  school 
committee  therefor  is  first  obtained.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall 
require  such  approval  for  the  making  of  ordinary  repairs. 

Section  5.  All  meetings  of  the  school  committee  shaU  be  open  to  the 
public.  Four  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum.  All  votes  shall  be 
taken  viva  voce  by  yea  and  nay,  and  all  votes  shall  be  entered  in  the 
records  of  the  committee. 

Section  6.  The  school  committee  shall  make  all  reasonable  rules  and 
regulations  for  the  management  of  the  public  schools  of  the  city  and 


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for  conducting  the  business  of  the  committee,  provided  that  such  rules 
are  not  inconsistent  with  any  laws  of  the  commonwealth. 

Section  7.  If  a  vacancy  occurs  in  the  school  committee  by  failure 
to  elect,  or  otherwise,  the  city  council  and  the  remaining  members  of 
the  school  committee  shall  meet  in  joint  convention  and  elect  a  suitable 
person  to  fill  the  vacancy  until  the  next  election.  The  mayor,  if  present, 
shall  preside  at  the  convention. 

Section  8.  This  act  shall  be  submitted  to  the  qualified  voters  of  the 
city  of  New  Bedford  at  the  next  state  election  in  answer  to  the  follow- 
ing question  to  be  placed  on  the  official  ballot :  —  "  Shall 
an  act  passed  by  the  general  court  in  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  twelve,  providing  that  the  school  committee 


of  the  city  of  New  Bedford  shall  consist  of  the  mayor,  ex  officio,  and 
six  members,  be  accepted?"  And  if  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast 
thereon  are  in  the  affirmative,  this  act  shall  take  effect ;  otherwise  it 
shall  be  void. 


MEDFORD    TO    BORROW   MONEY    FOR    SCHOOL    PURPOSES. 

Chapter  100. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  city  of  medford  to  borrow  money  for 

SCHOOL   purposes. 

Section  1.  The  city  of  Medford,  for  the  purpose  of  constructing 
and  equipping  an  addition  to  the  high  school  building  in  that  city,  may 
issue  from  time  to  time  notes  or  bonds  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  two 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  the  same  shall  not  be  reckoned  in  deter- 
mining the  statutory  limit  of  indebtedness  of  the  city.  Such  notes  or 
bonds  shall  bear  on  their  face  the  words  Medford  School  Loan,  Act  of 
1912,  shall  be  payable  at  the  expiration  of  such  periods,  not  exceeding 
twenty  years  from  the  date  of  issue,  and  shall  bear  interest  payable 
semi-annually  at  such  rate,  not  exceeding  four  i^er  cent  per  annum, 
as  the  board  of  aldermen  shall  determine;  and  shall  be  signed  by  the 
mayor  and  treasurer,  and  countersigned  by  the  auditor.  The  city  may 
sell  the  said  securities  at  public  or  private  sale,  upon  such  terms  and 
conditions  as  it  may  deem  jDroper,  but  they  shall  not  be  sold  for  less 
than  their  par  value. 

Section  2.  The  provisions  of  section  thirteen  of  chapter  twenty- 
seven  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as  amended  by  chapter  three  hundred  and 
forty-one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  and  by 
chapter  three  hundred  and  fifty  of  the  acts  of  the  j'ear  nineteen  hundred 
and  eleven,  shall  apply  to  the  loan  authorized  by  this  act. 


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LOWELL   TEXTILE    SCHOOL    TO    GRANT    DEGREES. 

Chapter  62. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  trustees  of  the  lowell  textile  school 
to  grant  certain  degrees. 
The  trustees  of  the  Lowell  textile  school  are  hereby  authorized  to 
grant  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Textile  Engineering  and  Bachelor  of 
Textile  Dyeing  to  jiupils  who  have  taken  the  four-year  day  course  of 
the  Lowell  textile  school  in  said  departments  and  have  j^assed  the  ex- 
aminations required  for  graduation. 

WHEATON    FEMALE    SEMINARY. 

Chapter  51. 

An  Act  to  authorize  wheaton  female  seminary  to  hold  additional 
real  and  personal  estate. 
Section  1.  Wheaton  Female  Seminary  is  hereby  authorized  to  hold 
real  and  jDersonal  estate  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  one  million  dollars 
in  addition  to  the  amount  which  it  is  now  authorized  to  hold,  to  be 
devoted  exclusively  to  the  purposes  of  education. 

WHEATON    COLLEGE. 

Chapter  84. 

An  Act  to  change  the  name  of  wheaton  female  seminary  to 
wheaton  college,  and  to  authorize  said  college  to  grant 
degrees. 

Section  1.  The  name  of  Wheaton  Female  Seminary  is  hereby 
changed  to  Wheaton  College. 

Section  2.  All  devises,  bequests,  conveyances  and  gifts  heretofore  or 
hereafter  made  to  said  corporation  by  either  of  said  names  shall  vest  in 
Wheaton  College. 

Section  3.  The  corporation  of  Wheaton  College  is  hereby  authorized 
to  grant  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  and  Master  of  Arts,  and  also 
such  honorary  testimonials  and  honorary  degrees  as  may  be  granted 
by  any  college  in  the  commonwealth. 

Section  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  when  the  board  of  education 
certifies  to  the  secretary  of  the  commonwealth  that  courses  of  college 
grade  have  been  laid  out  and  a  college  organization  effected. 


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SMITH   ACADEMY. 

Chapter  210. 

An  Act  relative  to  the  investments  that  may  be  made  by  the 
trustees  of  the  smith  academy. 
Section  1.  The  Trustees  of  the  Smith  Academy  iii  the  town  of  Hat- 
field, incorporated  by  chapter  sixty-eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year  eight- 
een hundred  and  seventy-one,  in  accordance  with  the  will  of  Sophia 
Smith,  are  hereby  authorized  to  invest  the  funds  of  the  corporation  in 
such  investments  as  would,  at  the  time  of  making  the  same,  be  lawful 
investments  for  savings  banks  in  this  commonwealth. 

GUSHING  ACADEMY. 

Chapter  23. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  trustees  of  the  gushing  academy  to 
hold  additional  real  and  personal  estate. 

Section  1.  The  corporation  known  as  the  Trustees  of  the  Gushing 
Academy  is  hereby  authorized  for  the  purposes  set  forth  in  its  act  of 
incorporation,  being  chapter  two  hundred  and  sixty-five  of  the  acts  of 
the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-five,  to  hold  real  and  personal 
estate  to  an  amount  which,  together  with  the  amount  heretofore  author- 
ized by  law,  shall  not  exceed  one  million  dollars. 

FRAMINGHAM   ACADEMY. 

Chapter  98. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  town  of  framingham  to  hold  certain 
land  conveyed  by  the  trustees  of  framingham  academy. 

Section  1.  The  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Framingham,  in  their 
corporate  capacity,  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  own  and 
hold  in  fee  simple  free  and  discharged  of  all  trusts  and  without  fur- 
ther obligation  on  the  part  of  said  inhabitants  to  hold,  own  aiad  use 
the  same  for  the  purposes  prescribed  in  chapter  one  hundred  and 
seventy-eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-one, 
"  the  High  School  Lot "  so-called,  in  said  town,  being  the  real  estate 
heretofore  conveyed  by  the  trustees  of  the  Framingham  Academy  to 
said  inhabitants  under  the  provisions  of  said  chapter,  and  said  real 
estate  is  hereby  discharged  and  relieved  of  aU  and  singular  the  trusts 
and  requirements  in  said  chapter  annexed  thereto,  and  said  inhabitants 
are  hereby  relieved  and  discharged  from  all  obligation  to  conform  to 
and  observe  said  trusts  and  requirements. 

Section  2.  The  inhabitants  of  Framingham,  in  their  corporate  ca- 
pacity, are  hereby  authorized  and  it  shall  be  lawful  for  them  to  erect 
and  maintain  on  said  real  estate  a  grade  schoolhouse,  and  to  maintain 
thereon  a  gi-ade  school  in  place  and  stead  of  such  school  as  is  required 


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by  said  cbajiter  one  hundred  and  seventy-eight  to  be  maintained  thereon, 
and  the  use  of  said  real  estate  for  such  purposes,  and  the  discontinuance 
of  the  maintenance  thereon  of  such  a  school  as  is  required  by  said 
chapter,  shall  not  be  deemed  at  any  time  hereafter  to  be  contrary  to 
the  terms  and  requirements  of  said  chapter,  or  as  a  failure,  neglect  or 
refusal  on  the  part  of  said  inhabitants  to  conform  to  and  comply  with 
said  terms  and  requirements. 

Section  3.  So  much  of  said  chapter  one  hundred  and  seventy-eight 
as  is  inconsistent  herewith  is  hereby  repealed. 

Section  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  acceptance  by  a  ma- 
jority of  the  voters  of  the  town  of  Framingham  present  and  voting 
thereon  at  a  meeting  called  for  the  purpose, 

NATICK   HIGH   SCHOOL    BUILDING. 

Chapter  6. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  town  op  natick  to  incur  indebtedness 

for  a  high  school  building. 

Section  1.  The  town  of  Natick,  for  the  purpose  of  erecting,  fur- 
nishing and  equipping  a  high  school  building  in  the  Centre  village,  so- 
called,  in  that  town,  and  for  the  purchase  of  land  therefor,  is  hereby 
authorized  to  borrow  money  beyond  its  statutory  limit  of  indebtedness, 
to  an  amount  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and  ten  thousand  dollars,  and 
to  issue  notes  or  bonds  therefor.  Such  notes  or  bonds  shall  bear  on  the 
face  thereof  the  words,  Natick  High  School  Loan,  Act  of  1912,  and 
also  the  words,  exemjDt  from  taxation  in  Massachusetts,  shall  be  payable 
at  the  expiration  of  periods  not  exceeding  twenty  years  from  the  re- 
spective dates  of  issue,  shall  bear  interest,  payable  semi-annually,  at 
a  rate  not  exceeding  four  per  cent  per  annum,  and  shall  be  signed  by 
the  treasurer  and  countersigned  by  the  selectmen  of  the  town.  The 
town  may  sell  such  securities  at  public  or  private  sale,  upon  such  terms 
and  conditions  as  it  may  deem  expedient,  but  they  shall  not  be  sold  for 
less  than  their  par  value. 

Section  2.  The  town  shall,  at  the  time  of  authorizing  the  said  loan, 
provide  for  the  payment  thereof  in  such  annual  proportionate  pay- 
ments as  will  extinguish  the  same  within  the  time  prescribed  in  this 
act;  and  when  a  vote  to  that  effect  has  been  passed  the  amount  required 
thereby  shall,  without  further  vote,  be  assessed  by  the  assessors  of  the 
town  annually  thereafter,  in  the  same  manner  in  which  other  town  taxes 
are  assessed,  until  the  debt  incurred  by  the  loan  is  extinguished.  The 
town  shall  also  raise  annually  by  taxation  a  sum  which  will  be  sufficient 
to  pay  the  interest  as  it  accrues  on  the  notes  or  bonds  issued  under 
authority  of  this  act. 

Section  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  accejotance  by  a  ma- 
jority of  the  voters  of  the  town  jDresent  and  voting  thereon  at  a  meeting 
duly  called  for  the  purjDOse. 


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PUBLIC    SCHOOL   PROPERTY   OF    THE    CITY    OF    BOSTON. 

Chapter  195. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  use  of  public  school  property  of  the 

city  of  boston  for  social,  civic  and  other  purposes. 

Section  1.  For  the  purpose  of  promoting  the  usefulness  of  the  pub- 
lic school  property  of  the  city  of  Boston,  the  school  committee  of  that 
city  may  conduct  such  educational  and  recreative  activities  in  or  upon 
school  property  under  its  control,  and  shall  allow  the  use  thereof  by 
individuals  and  associations,  subject  to  such  regulations  as  the  school 
committee  may  establish,  for  such  educational,  recreative,  social,  civic, 
philanthropic  and  similar  purposes  as  the  committee  may  deem  to  be 
for  the  interest  of  the  community:  provided,  that  no  admission  fee  is 
charged  and  that  such  use  shall  not  interfere  or  be  inconsistent  with 
the  use  of  the  premises  for  school  purposes. 

Section  2.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  the  school  committee  may  appropriate  in  each  year  in  addition  to 
and  in  the  same  manner  in  which  it  makes  appropriations  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  public  school  and  other  purposes  authorized  by  law,  a  sum 
not  exceeding  two  cents  upon  each  one  thousand  dollars  of  the  valua- 
tion upon  which  the  appropriations  of  the  city  council  of  the  city  are 
based. 

TEACHERS'    PENSIONS   IN    CITY    OF    BOSTON. 

Chapter  569. 
An  Act  to  extend  the  time  within  which  certain  applications 

for  pensions  may  be  made  by  teachers  in  the  public  schools 

of  the  city  of  boston. 
Section  1.  Section  four  of  chapter  six  hundred  and  seventeen  of  the 
acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten  is  hereby  amended  by  strik- 
ing out  the  words  "  within  three  months  after  the  passage  of  this  act ", 
in  the  last  two  lines  of  the  section,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the 
words :  —  before  the  first  day  of  August  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred 
and  twelve,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Section  4.  The  school  com- 
mittee of  said  city  during  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten  shall  grant 
pensions  to  not  less  than  sixty  persons,  who  were  annuitants  of  the 
Boston  Teachers'  Retirement  Fund  Association  at  the  time  when  said 
chapter  five  hundred  and  eighty-nine  took  effect  or  teachers  who  had 
retired  previous  to  said  time,  having  taught  in  the  public  day  schools 
for  a  period  aggregating  thirty  years,  twenty  of  which  were  in  the 
public  day  schools  of  the  city  of  Boston,  at  a  rate  not  less  than  one 
hundred  and  eighty  dollars  per  annum  for  each  person,  which  shall  be 
payable  from  the  fund  established  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and 
during  each  year  thereafter  such  a  number  of  additional  persons  shall 


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be  pensioned  as  shall  be  necessary  to  keep  on  the  roll  the  names  of  not 
less  than  sixty  such  persons:  provided,  that  all  such  persons  receiving 
pensions  shall  hold  themselves  subject  to  the  call  of  said  school  com- 
mittee to  teach  in  ease  of  need  or  emergency  at  the  rates  of  pay  current 
for  substitutes  at  the  time  when  they  are  so  called;  and  provided,  fur- 
ther, that  no  person  shall  be  paid  a  pension  under  this  section  who  shall 
not  have  made  written  application  therefor  to  the  secretary  of  said 
school  committee  before  the  first  day  of  August  in  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  twelve. 

Section  2.  Persons  who  have  been  employed  in  teaching  or  super- 
vising in  the  public  schools  of  the  town  of  Hyde  Park  prior  to  the  first 
day  of  January,  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve,  and  who  then 
became  members  of  the  teaching  or  supervising  staff  of  the  public  day 
schools  of  the  city  of  Boston,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  the  benefits 
under  chapter  two  hundred  and  thirty-seven  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
nineteen  hundred,  and  chapter  six  hundred  and  seventeen  of  the  acts 
of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten,  in  the  same  manner  as  if  such 
sen-ice  had  been  wholly  rendered  in  the  city  of  Boston. 


List  of  Titles  of  Chapters,  Educational  Legis- 
lation OF  1912. 


Part  I.     Acts  and  Resolves  conferring  Powers  and  Duties  on  the 
Board  of  Education:  — 
Appointees  and  expenditures  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
State  normal  school  accounts,     ...... 

Schooling  of  wards  of  the  State  or  of  the  city  of  Boston, 

State  Normal  Art  School  and  the  Boston  Normal  School, 

Transportation  of  certain  high  school  pupils. 

Educational  institutions  supported  in  part  by  the  State,  report  on 

School  for  designing  silverware  and  jewelry. 

City  of  Fitchburg  and  the  State  Normal  School,  . 

City  of  Salem  and  the  Normal  School  Training  School, 

Degrees  by  college,  etc.,      ....... 


4,5 
5 
6 
6 

6,7 
7 

7,8 

8 

S-10 

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Part  II.     Acts  of  Gener.\l  Import  to  the  Public  Schools:  — 
School  returns  and  school  statistics,     ..... 

Superintendency  unions,     ....... 

Delinquent  children  and  the  commission  on  probation. 
Minors  and  compulsory  education,      ..... 

Appointment  of  school  attendance  officers,  .... 

Appointment  of  truant  officers,  ...... 

Evening  classes  for  women  in  the  practical  arts,   . 
State  scholarships  in  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 
State  scholarships  in  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute, 
Use  of  common  towels,       ..... 

Playgrounds  in  certain  towns,     .... 

Use  of  school  halls,    ...... 

Independent  Agricultural  School  in  Bristol  County, 
Independent  Agricultural  School  in  Essex  County, 


Part   III.     Special   Legislation    relating   to  Specific  Communities 
or  Institutions:  — 
School  committee  of  Holyoke, 
School  committee  of  New  Bedford, 
Medford  to  borrow  money  for  school  purposes, 
Lowell  Textile  School  to  grant  degrees, 
Wheaton  Female  Seminary, 
Wheaton  College, 
Smith  Academy, 
Cushing  Academy,     . 
Framingham  Academy, 
Natick  high  school  building. 
Public  school  property  of  the  city  of  Boston, 
Teachers'  pensions  in  the  city  of  Boston, 


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18 

18 

18,  19 

19 

19,20 

21 

22 

22,23 

23,24 

24,25 

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31 

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33 

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